Bohdanna
Fewer than 230 women in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one. The *h* and doubled *n* mark a Ukrainian spelling of Bogdana, from the Slavic *bog* and *dan*: given by god.
Bohdanna Pronunciation
Bohdanna is pronounced bogh-DAHN-nah (/bɔɣˈdanna/).
What Bohdanna means
Where Bohdanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bohdanna grows from Slavic roots, from bog, meaning god, and dan, meaning given. Together they say given by god. The double n and the h in place of a g mark it as a Ukrainian spelling, the feminine partner to Bohdan, while Polish records keep the softer Bogdana and the masculine Bogdan.
The name moved beyond folk speech into church and chronicle. Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the seventeenth-century Cossack hetman, carried the masculine form into every Ukrainian history book, and the sense of a child received as a gift stayed legible in it for a long time after him.
In a Polish class register, Bohdanna would sit apart from the Bogdanas, its h and second n marking a family with Ukrainian ties. The sense holds. On either side of the border the name means one thing: dana przez boga, given by god.
How many people are named Bohdanna
1 in 101549 women in Poland is named Bohdanna. 222 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2088 among female names.
Bohdanna as a middle name
Bohdanna is a first name for 222 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 98/2 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3524th, between Bogdanna (5) and Borzyna (5).
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#3522 Blandine5
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#3523 Bogdanna5
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#3524 Bohdanna5
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#3525 Borzyna5
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#3526 Bozenna5